Among the important citizens of this part of Pune and the Cantonment who supported the idea of a new college were Sir Manekji Mehta, Prof. D. D. Kapadia, Shri A.
Over the years, it has become a popular choice to acquire an all-round quality education for many young men and women all over the country and abroad.
V. K. Joag, who already knew the late Sir Cusrow Wadia, while he was life member of the Deccan Education Society, approached him about the middle of January 1932 and told him how he and some of his colleagues were free to work outside the Deccan Education Society and were desirous of starting an Arts and Science college in the eastern parts of the city of Poona as early as possible.
A regular registered educational Society was subsequently founded on 15 February at a meeting of the citizens of Poona and other friends held in the Cowasjee Dinshaw Library Hall.
It was at this meeting that the first Senate of the Society was formed and the newly formed Senate decided on the recommendation of its Finance Council and the Academic Council, to establish, as from June, 1932, a college affiliated to a university in the Poona Suburban Area.
Thus the inception of the Nowrosjee Wadia College is to be traced back to this first meeting of the Senate of the Society held on 15 February 1932.
As one can imagine, the work which had to be completed within a span of about three months was very heavy and but for the fact that among the founder life members of the College were several persons with considerable experience of teaching and administration and had also contacts in educational circles in Bombay and Poona, it would have been impossible to accomplish the task.
They and others worked round the clock, enrolled over a hundred persons as fellows and patrons of the Society.
An application was accordingly submitted to the University of Bombay for the affiliation of the proposed College for the teaching of the Arts course up to B.A.
The college also offers high school courses (11th and 12th) for arts and sciences.